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In this chapter I will detail novel methods, developed by myself and others in our group over the past 6 years, extending spectroscopic-imaging STM (SI-STM) to imaging states which have significant intra-unit-cell structure. I will a introduce a method of finding and segregating different atomic sites or sub-lattices. I will also outline the technical steps required to use the complex Fourier transform of SI-STM spectroscopic maps to probe intra-unit-cell symmetry breaking. Focussing on cuprate superconductors, these methods will be used in Chap. 4 to determine the intricate intra-unit-cell structure of the charge density wave in cuprates.
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Edkins, S. (2017). Sub-lattice Segregated SI-STM in Cuprates. In: Visualising the Charge and Cooper-Pair Density Waves in Cuprates . Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65975-6_3
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